Keith Jacobs – The Conversation

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May 11, 2020

Coronavirus has shone a light on UK’s housing crisis – here’s how it can be fixed

Rowland Atkinson, University of Sheffield and Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania

Coronavirus has made it glaringly obvious how serious the problems with UK housing are.

Goldsmith Street, a social housing development which won the 2019 RIBA Stirling prize for architecture. © Tim Crocker

November 26, 2019

Finally, most parties take the UK’s housing crisis seriously

Rowland Atkinson, University of Sheffield and Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania

For decades, social housing has been defunded and ignored. The system is now broken, and it needs to be fixed.

Energy efficient social housing in Tasmania. Xsquared, Hobart

June 25, 2019

Australia’s social housing policy needs stronger leadership and an investment overhaul

Julie Lawson, RMIT University; Jago Dodson, RMIT University; Kathleen Flanagan, University of Tasmania; Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania; Laurence Troy, UNSW , and Ryan van den Nouwelant, Western Sydney University

Australia needs to build 730,000 more social housing units in 20 years.

A cake made to farewell the last tenant to leave the Sirius building, which was built in Sydney at a time when governments saw the need to invest directly in public housing. Ben Rushton/AAP

February 5, 2019

Is social housing essential infrastructure? How we think about it does matter

Kathleen Flanagan, University of Tasmania; Chris Martin, UNSW ; Julie Lawson, RMIT University, and Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania

If we recognised social housing as infrastructure as essential as transport links, schools and hospitals, not properly investing in it could become unthinkable.

The housing problems experienced by low-income households are a symptom of entrenched inequality within Australia. AAP/Dan Peled

February 4, 2016

How policy success, not failure, has driven Australia’s housing crisis

Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania

Government policy has not, on the whole, failed. It has been a huge success insofar as protecting the opportunities for speculative investment and profit for homeowners and private landlords.

Record-low interest rates could further inflate the housing markets in Sydney and Melbourne. Paul Miller/AAP

May 8, 2015

Speaking with: Keith Jacobs on the politics of housing

Dallas Rogers, Western Sydney University

While policies such as negative gearing have helped middle to high income earners own property, they have also locked low income earners out of the market and created an unequal housing sector.

Interest rates would appear to be a national obsession: but are we worrying too much? AAP

December 12, 2011

Why falling house prices aren’t the calamity the media would have you believe

Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania

Welcome to Safe as Houses, a series delving into a topic close to the heart of many Australians - property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we view…

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